workableness (werkablnes)

Practicablene ; feasibility. That fair trial which alone can test the workablene of any new scheme of social life. J. S. Mill , Socialism. workaday (werk'a-dā), n . and a . [Formerly also workyday. Cf. workday .] I.t n. A working-day. Trade, I cashier thee till to-morrow; friend Onion, for thy sake I finish this work i day . B. Jonson, Case is Altered, iv. 3. We find a great Deference paid to Saturday Afternoon, above the other worky - Days of the Week. Bourne's Pop. Antiq . (1777), p. 145. II. a . Working-day; relating to workdays; plodding; toiling. Your face shall be tann'd Like a sailor's worky - day hand. Middle ton and Rowley , Spanish Gypsy, iv. 1. Work- a -day humanity. Dickens , Uncommercial Traveller, iv. This is a workaday , practical world, and... we must face things as they are. The Century, XXXIX. 630.